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Still, perhaps both in this arc and in Tatarigoroshi-hen, it was always just Rena's/K1's friends covering them. Did perhaps Mion move Teppei's corpse in Tatarigoroshi-hen as well? She could have very easilly figured out what K1 was up to.

I was wondering this as well. However, didn't people see Teppei after that night? I'll have to rewatch those episodes...

Wow... this episodes was... really awesome. It's probably my favorite episode so far. So many relevations. This episode was sad and made me teary. >.>

It does seem like the reset theory is true. About that one TIP about the dice, I don't think Rika was talking to Sakoto. It seems to me like Sakoto came down and saw that Rika was still awake. I also think the person Rika is talking to is the same person she was talking to with the "My Favorite Wine" TIP. Oyashiro? Anyway, I can't wait for the next episode.

「But I will dare to call myself Rika. .........I, do believe that my given name is Rika, as it’s been so long.」

This line caught my attention...

She is Rika somehow, but at the same time is not...

To me it looks like this:
Rika Furude is a small child like the others
The other one (Frederika?) is the Rika that has the memories of the other worlds and is bored with these loops of reality
The one Rika/Frederika talks with while drinks wine is... Oyashiro-sama? hehehe

HOW did she know about K1's indiscretions with the BB Gun. She said it was Oishi but I have my doubts he would reveal that information to a minor much less a mentally not-stable minor.

Oishi doesn't know that Rena has lost it. He has only has contacted her a few times. First at the school in his car and had at least 2 phone calls later. Her hysteria can be explain (in his pt of view) that he thinks Rena is being targetted by the Sonozaki Family. Besides if you only heard the first part of her theory it sounds reasonable (even tho questionable).

There's a lot of stuff skipped from the Mion + Keiichi scene this EP and Rena + Keiichi phone call from the last EP. Basically, the scrapbooks were much more detailed with other scientific evidences (ie talking about other types of parasites, talking about spring fever/allergies, etc). and circumstantial evidences (more Sonozaki stuff during the Dam wars), but Mion picks apart every example Keiichi could think of from his phone call with Rena the following day.

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I believe the multiple notebooks...

Apparently, according to Mion, Rena isn't the first of Takano's victims. Takano picks a lucky child every year to tell her stories to Years before, Satoko believed there were mole people running around for a while.

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Originally Posted by Wanderer

Still, perhaps both in this arc and in Tatarigoroshi-hen, it was always just Rena's/K1's friends covering them. Did perhaps Mion move Teppei's corpse in Tatarigoroshi-hen as well? She could have very easilly figured out what K1 was up to.

Most likely this was Shion who did this. Shion intercepted Keiichi's phone call and knew instantly the same situation happened last year. She was in the best position to cover up for Keiichi. Ne-ne + Ni-Ni do think alike ^^;

Hm actually, are we really sure that Keiichi did actually kill Teppei? Didn't his friends say he was at the festival the entire time..?

That was a cover-up from his friends. I guess Rena, Mion, and Rika saw that Satoko was very upset over his sudden disappearance (Asshole or not, you would still be really nervous if one of your best friends murdered your uncle) and decided to let Satoko believe Keiichi really was at the festival. Keiichi was just too dumb to catch on.

Apparently, according to Mion, Rena isn't the first of Takano's victims. Takano picks a lucky child every year to tell her stories to Years before, Satoko believed there were mole people running around for a while.

That was a cover-up from his friends. I guess Rena, Mion, and Rika saw that Satoko was very upset over his sudden disappearance (Asshole or not, you would still be really nervous if one of your best friends murdered your uncle) and decided to let Satoko believe Keiichi really was at the festival. Keiichi was just too dumb to catch on.

Ah... yeah I just rewatched Tatarigoroshihen and realized they never showed Teppei after that night. That arc is starting to make more sense to me now... still confused about some things but I'm guessing most of the answers are in Minagoroshihen? (hopefully I'm not going too off topic haha).

Still, perhaps both in this arc and in Tatarigoroshi-hen, it was always just Rena's/K1's friends covering them. Did perhaps Mion move Teppei's corpse in Tatarigoroshi-hen as well? She could have very easilly figured out what K1 was up to.

Most likely this was Shion who did this. Shion intercepted Keiichi's phone call and knew instantly the same situation happened last year. She was in the best position to cover up for Keiichi. Ne-ne + Ni-Ni do think alike ^^;

Yeah
I noticed it too
Just take a look again on Tatarigoroshi and Meakashi
On Tatarigoroshi "Mion" said "I received a similar call last year" (refering to Satoshi) but from Meakashi we know the one who received this call was Shion. (Even if the "worlds/arcs" are different I'll admit some things are the same)

Shion probably prepared to cover up for Keiichi, maybe she even got help from the girls, Mion and Rena. Who knows...

Er, I think LostBlue was just kidding. Why would Shion intercept that phone call? It's possible, though not that likely that Mion and the rest might have moved the body but I was never a fan of the cover up theory. I just don't think the girls would be that dumb not to inform him about the cover up and leave him think he was going mad.

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'Yes, and that is why we seek light.'

For your amusement, I roughly TL half of Mion's confession to Keiichi. None of this is relevant, but if you guys want to the rest of it, I guess I'll post it later in the week (the rest of the convo is up). This is where Mion talks about Takano's past works.

Spoiler:

The day after Keiichi has his phone call with Rena, he decides to confront Mion about it as Keiichi didn’t want to believe that Mion was involved in such a conspiracy.

M: 「……What, …what’s up…?」
K: 「Do you know, ……there are people who are trying to revive the Faith in Oyashiro-sama. 」
M: 「…………huh？ What, Kei-chan? What are we talking about?」

This is of course, just me prying.
I wanted to see what reaction Mion will have if I came at her directly.

But, Mion really really looked at me blankly.
……When someone hits the nail on the head, most people can’t keep their cool. Most definitely they will show some, even a little, reaction.

Unless Mion is a gifted actor, ……Mion really, had no connection with the words revival of Oyashiro-sama.

……I decided to come clean.

K: 「Mion. Your house, the Sonozaki Family, holds extreme influence over all of Hinamizawa. …………but is there …some type of secret plan to revive the faith of Oyashiro-sama？」

M: 「……Revive？ Why？」

K: 「Yeah, I mean. The current Oyashiro-sama’s Faith is pretty thin, compared to the ancient times, right? Meaning, ……there are orthodox advocates wanting to bring the faith to the level it used to be like long ago like in Onigafuchi with some secrete plan or something.」

M: 「Wha？ Wait wait, what’s that. What are we talking about?」
K: 「………So really, you have no idea what I’m talking about…？」

M: 「Of course I don’t. What, that’s an interesting story, kinda like those American Best Sellers.」

Mion’s reaction was very natural.
It was impossible that she was pretending to act that she didn’t know when she really knows. ……But, I still continued.

K: 「Well, I mean…… There seems to be people like that in this village. Mion, don’t you know?」

M: 「The Oyashiro-sama Faith, to the level of the Onigafuchi era…？ Is there something good that will come out of that？」
K: 「……Well, ……obviously to the strong fanatical believers, it may have some profound meaning to them……」

M: 「But Kei-chan. No one is going to be happy, going back to the old strict ways. Now in the present, if someone said you can’t leave the village, they won’t be able to make a living, you know.」
K: 「Fo, for example, you know, ……Rika-chan! It seems that Rika-chan been pampered being that she is said to be the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama, right? So probably within followers of senior citizen crowd there might be a fanatical group existing……、」

M: 「By Rika-chan’s followers you mean, like Kimiyoshi-no-Ojichan?

Well, …I certainly believe that they have heavy beliefs but, I don’t think you can call that fanatical.」

K: 「No, but there is! People who plan to once again revive the true Oyashiro-sama Faith!」

M: 「Ah ha ha ha ha!
…Okay okay. We’re going nowhere with this, so let’s say I believe you. And?」
K: 「And, they realized that Oyashiro-sama true identity is an unique local endemic disease in this region, and they are researching to determine the pathogen.」

M: 「Where?

Anyway what’s this endemic disease? What the heck is a pathogen? Stop being so smart.」

I don’t even know what I’m trying to say anymore…

Last night, I was completely inspired by Rena, buying into this crazy story but,……Now that I say it out of my mouth, I begin to understand how inconsistent it is…

M: 「It’s well known. That person, is an occult mania, so she’s always coming up with these tremendous tall tales. Once in a while there will be someone who takes it seriously, and heavily becomes influenced; it’s pretty famous around here.

I also, long ago, heard her stories, and it was quite fun. Ah ha ha.」
K: 「…………Is that, ……for real？」

M: 「Kei-chan, I’m sure you heard of this somewhere, but this village long ago had quite an unique tradition. And those traditions were rather on the grim side, with strict percepts and strict penalties, and harsh customs, become somewhat famous amongst the occult crowd it seems. Miyo-san is just one of those maniacs.」

K: 「Then……、the story about this village being under the control of mysterious parasites are…,」

M: 「Ha？！ Parasiiites？！

…Is that, Miyo-san’s new story？」
K: 「What do you mean by new story?」

M: 「I told you, Miyo-san is an occult mania. She’s been researching into the outrageous legends of Onigafuchi village, and with this and that legends she pulls, she analyze them, and has fun creating these fantasies.

That’s why, she has all these other literally works besides that village mind-controlling parasites theorizing stuff. The one I heard long ago was the UFO theory. This was quite interesting as it was pretty consistent!

In the ancient past, a UFO crash lands in the Onigafuchi Marsh, and from there the aliens that came out started this war with the villagers…and it started something like that, kinda like a B-Class SF Horror flick. The one Satoko heard, was the underground citizens theory, I think it was? With the change in the Earth’s crust, an Underground Kingdom and Onigafuchi became connected, and what happen,

……yes yes、the Princess of the Underground Kingdom and a youngster from the village fell in love, and restored the communion of the society, it was an SF Romeo & Juliet.

And then, her new work seems to be the parasite theory that you heard Kei-chan. Yep yep, I would really want her to collect all these in one book someday, ku ku ku!」

Mion then couldn’t help laughing so hard, she grabs her stomach.

……As I watch this,…I realized what a hollow farfetched tale I took seriously.

There’s no mistake about it.
…I’ve fallen for an outrageous tall tale.

K: 「I’m sory Mion! Honestly answer what I’m about to ask! First, ……are there people trying to revive the Oyashiro-sama Faith?!」

M: 「Nope. Actually, it’s quite the opposite. The Gosanke already have the single will to appeal Hinamizawa steadily to the outside world, and prosper the village. This is still a secret, but our aim for the 21st century is to have a freeway run through here. The Sonozaki Family is currently baiting the topic under the surface. If all goes well, this area will boom with prosperity. Baccha predicts with that, the property value of this mountain forest area will skyrocket and we’ll make a large profit. Although, that large task will have to wait until 21st century, so most likely I’ll be taking over that job.」

K: 「Then……, the people who are digested by outsiders… don’t exists？」

M: 「That’s what I’ve been telling you, they don’t！ The village is already incontinent, what’s the point of making it more so? Presently, the village is now, selling land for development. Kei-chan, your house is precisely the first example of that. Didn’t the villagers welcome you? The Gosanke are trying to devise more ways to stop the outward flow of youngsters, you know.」

Mion’s words were not clouded.
It had a taste of reality incomparable to Takano’s delusional theory that Rena believes.

……My eyes steadily open with Mion’s words.

K: 「Then, then, …ahmmm, What about this account, as proof that there is a infestation of parasites, within the blood of the citizens of Hinamizawa, the number to something-or-other is abnormally high…,」

M: 「Is that so? Anyway, how did Miyo-san look into that？」
K: 「Because, Takano is a nurse, right? If she wanted to research that she could have done it whenever…」

M: 「And who is going to give blood to support that suspicious study? No one will. Either way, even if she was able to get the blood, where would she do that research? Are you saying that Miyo-san by herself study the blood of several people？」

…Exactly what Mion said.
Because of Takano-san’s occupation as a nurse, I probably was hooked into believing this tall tale. It’s one thing if a Health Care Centre collected large samples of blood, but there is a limit for Miyo-san to individually research this.

……By thinking reasonably like this, …this certainly is not a tale that should be swallowed.

K: 「Then, as another proof of the infestation of the parasites, I heard that no one gets hey fever…！」

M: 「Hey fever is a city disease. Wasn’t that related to exhaust gases? This is Hinamizawa, Kei-chan. Besides, probably, I would except they’re won’t be many people in Okonomiya either with hey fever.」

K: 「ah, ……then, what about this! That there is an Assassin Squadron under the direct control of the Sonozaki Estate Head, and long ago, they even kidnapped the Minsiter’s grandson, right？！」

M: 「It’s true, the minister’s grandson was found around Takaudo. But, that wasn’t us. It wasn’t us, but we acted as if we really did.」
K: 「……That’s hard to understand, please explain.」

M: 「Yeah. During the Dam War, it’s true that the Onigafuchi Last Stand Alliance done some awfully dangerous resistance measures. We did stuff that bordered terrorism. But, at the time, there seemed to be people who used that image. There were fake Alliances that used the name to deceive people to demand money.」

The Onigafuchi Last Stand Alliance were at the time had that aggressive aura of influence.
The possibility for a group to deceive others by using the name for easy black mailing was certainly thinkable.

M: 「Amongst that, there was the kidnapping of the Minister’s grandson. Probably the culprits were pretending to be the Last Stand Alliance to throw the police investigation while they demanded their ransom.

To tell you the truth, that incident was even a surprise for the Alliance! It was the talk of they day, how amazing it was to kidnap the Minister’s grandson. If we ever met the culprits, we talked about how we should praise them.」
K: 「Wait, wait a second! Then the kidnapping of the Minister’s grandson ……had nothing to do with the Onigafuchi Last Stand Alliance?!」

M: 「Yep, not at all.」

Mion frankly said it.
Without any hesitation, as if splitting bamboo, she gave a clear-cut answer.

Even this, if I thought about it was obvious.

To kidnap the Minister’s grandson, and to make direct negotiations with the Minister, is an outrageous big incident.
That, no matter how aggressive they were, is not something the citizens of Hinamizawa can do. It’s obviously the work of a professional criminal!

M: 「…………Well, I stop myself short of saying it. The Sonozaki Estate, in regards to this kidnapping, acted as if they were black curtain behind it all.」
K: 「Acting, for what reason…？」

M: 「…This is、………a secret family tradition within the Sonozaki Estate. Kei-chan, I’ll secretly tell you, but you have to keep this a secret, okay?!

When anything favorable happens to the Sonozaki Estate, we act as if we pulled the strings to everything, it’s a practice of bluffing.」
K: 「………Bluffing,……！ A bluff？！」

M: 「Yeah. If something happens in our favor, it doesn’t even have to be an incident or anything. It could be the good weather, or even the winning lotto number. As if everything happened because the Sonozaki Estate desired it so, we act as if we knew the result.

Then what? It creates this image that we’re an astounding Overlord of all things, right? Meaning that’s it. This is an oral tradition passed generation to generation down to only the Sonozaki Estate Head, a secret tactic of image. A tactical image that makes us larger then we really are.」

K: 「……huhーーーーー…………。…th、…then、hey、during the Dam War didn’t you guys plan on taking over the Ministry of Construction?! What about that?! Moreover, for that purpose you had weapons and did training…！」

Our greatest objective was to apply this pressure, they might be crazy enough to do it, see what terrifying people are, to give them this illusion was our greatest objective. Mean, this is another strategic image again.」

By making preparations and doing the training, they achieve their goal of applying this pressure, and had no thoughts of actually executing it, …just a Sonozaki Bluff.

Well, of course. Of course…！
There is no way they can occupy the Ministry of Construction, and even if they did, it wouldn’t solve anything, by giving it a little thought that’s obvious!
Say they did successfully occupy the building, the police will then push their way in with great numbers, and in a blink of an eye, suppress them!

K: 「Then, the weapons and the training is……」

M: 「Concerning the weapons……Ahaha、no comment, okay☆ But we did the training. So the Bluff will stand, we really did！

As Kasai-san as our Leader, my father gathered the youngsters, and played war games with a trainer in the Texan desert, then after that we laid-back and went sight-seeing in San Franciscoー. Ahahahahaha.」
K: 「Then, then,……then…………,」

I couldn’t think of anything else. …It was completely, obvious.

I was, no, Rena too.
……We were just being played by Takno-san’s delusional scrapbooks…….

Then it goes off with Keiichi seeing the white van again at the school yard with Chie-sensei talking to the man named Okonogi. Keiichi sees the Principal and asks him who these men were. The Principal replies they are Landscapers hired by the school. They got lost yesterday taking a shortcut to the school which is relatively easy to get lost here in Hinamizawa if you're not familiar with all the small roads.

The day before, also, Keiichi overhears the Principal and Chie-sensei talking about the envelop the Okonogi Landscapers gave them. The Principal was asking why the number on the envelop won't work which Chie-sensei responds that the envelop is from their old office and they just mistakenly to put it in the wrong envelop.

Still can't get this episode out of my head. What I'm wondering if how Rika will "fight with him". And if that will continue past this arc. And on the nature of the menace that she's willing to fight... If it's something that somebody who has a consciousness that spans across different realities takes extremely seriously, then I'm starting to doubt that "Oyashiro-sama's curse" can be just a virus or even something as mundane as aliens.

Well, heh, I didn't expect Keiichi to suddenly see into other dimensions. I knew there was some kind of magic force behind everything in this anime, but I am surprised they went that far. I'm not complaining, though, that is kind of cool. Maybe he should see all the dimensions =O. Well, I guess the first arc is the only one in which Keiichi had similar problems to Rena...

Er, I think LostBlue was just kidding. Why would Shion intercept that phone call? It's possible, though not that likely that Mion and the rest might have moved the body but I was never a fan of the cover up theory. I just don't think the girls would be that dumb not to inform him about the cover up and leave him think he was going mad.

Shion took the call, IMO. Read the last TIP for Meakashi.
When Shion isn't crazy, she's actually PROTECTIVE of Satoko (very apparent in Minagoroshi and Matsuribayashi). Keiichi is her Ni-ni and Shion is her Ne-ne.

Unless you want to believe the dopplerganger theory which Rena supports in TIP 129.

OK, maybe Shion moved the body but that does not explain Keiichi being seen on the festival.
Come to think about, why is the police unaware about Takano's penchant for fantastic scenarios? After all, it seems that her obsession is well known by the villagers if we are to trust Mion. Although, getting info from these particular villagers is not easy.

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'The world we live in is always in darkness.'
'Yes, and that is why we seek light.'

For your amusement, I roughly TL half of Mion's confession to Keiichi. None of this is relevant, but if you guys want to the rest of it, I guess I'll post it later in the week. This is where Mion talks about Takano's past works.

Spoiler:

The day after Keiichi has his phone call with Rena, he decides to confront Mion about it as Keiichi didn’t want to believe that Mion was involved in such a conspiracy.

M: 「……What, …what’s up…?」
K: 「Do you know, ……there are people who are trying to revive the Faith in Oyashiro-sama. 」
M: 「…………huh? What, Kei-chan? What are we talking about?」

This, of course, is just me prying.
I wanted to see what reaction Mion will have if I came at her directly.

But, Mion really really starred at me blankly.
……When someone hits the nail on the head, most people can’t keep their cool. Most definitely they will show some, even a little, reaction.

Unless Mion is a gifted actor, ……Mion really had no connection with the words, revival of Oyashiro-sama.

……I decided to come clean.

K: 「Mion. Your household, the Sonozaki Family, holds extreme influence over all of Hinamizawa. …………but is there …some type of secret plan to revive the faith of Oyashiro-sama?」

M: 「……Revive? Why?」

K: 「Yeah, I mean. The current Oyashiro-sama’s Faith is pretty thin, compared to the ancient times, right? Meaning, ……there are orthodox advocates wanting to bring the faith to the level it used to be like long ago like in Onigafuchi with some secret plan or something.」

M: 「Wha? Wait wait, what’s that. What are we talking about?」
K: 「………So really, you have no idea what I’m talking about…?」

M: 「Of course I don’t. Yea, that’s an interesting story, kinda like those American Best Sellers.」

Mion’s reaction was very natural.
It was impossible that she was pretending to act that she didn’t know when she really knows. ……But, I still continued.

K: 「Well, I mean…… There seems to be people like that in this village. Mion, don’t you know?」

M: 「The Oyashiro-sama Faith, to the level of the Onigafuchi era…? Is there something good that will come out of that?」
K: 「……Well, ……obviously to the strong fanatical believers, it may have some profound meaning to them……」

M: 「But Kei-chan. No one is going to be happy, going back to the old strict ways. Now in the present, if someone said you can’t leave the village, they won’t be able to make a living, you know.」
K: 「Fo, for example, you know, ……Rika-chan! It seems that Rika-chan been pampered being that she is said to be the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama, right? So probably within followers of senior citizen crowd there might be a fanatical group existing……、」

M: 「By Rika-chan’s followers you mean, like Kimiyoshi-no-Ojichan?

Well, …I certainly believe that they have heavy beliefs but, I don’t think you can call that fanatical.」

K: 「No, but there is! People who plan to once again revive the true Oyashiro-sama Faith!」

M: 「Ah ha ha ha ha!
…Okay okay. We’re going nowhere with this, so let’s say I believe you. And?」
K: 「And, they realized that Oyashiro-sama true identity is an unique local endemic disease in this region, and they are researching to determine the pathogen.」

M: 「Where?

Anyway what’s this endemic disease? What the heck is a pathogen? Stop being so smart.」

I don’t even know what I’m trying to say anymore…

Last night, I was completely inspired by Rena, buying into this crazy story but,……Now that I say it out of my mouth, I begin to understand how inconsistent it is…

M: 「It’s well known。That person, is an occult mania, so she’s always coming up with these tremendous tall tales. Once in a while there will be someone who takes it seriously, and heavily becomes influenced; it’s pretty famous around here.

I also, long ago, heard her stories, and it was quite fun. Ah ha ha.」
K: 「…………Is that, ……for real?」

M: 「Kei-chan, I’m sure you heard of this somewhere, but this village long ago had quite an unique tradition. And those traditions were rather on the grim side, with strict percepts and strict penalties, and harsh customs, become somewhat famous amongst the occult crowd it seems. Miyo-san is just one of those maniacs.」

K: 「Then……、the story about this village being under the control of mysterious parasites are…,」

M: 「Ha?! Parasiiites?!

…Is that, Miyo-san’s new story?」
K: 「What do you mean by new story?」

M: 「I told you, Miyo-san is an occult mania. She’s been researching into the outrageous legends of Onigafuchi village, and with this and that legends she pulls, she analyze them, and has fun creating these fantasies.

That’s why, she has all these other literally works besides that village mind-controlling parasites theorizing stuff. The one I heard long ago was the UFO theory. This was quite interesting as it was pretty consistent!

In the ancient past, a UFO crash lands in the Onigafuchi Marsh, and from there the aliens that came out started this war with the villagers…and it started something like that, kinda like a B-Class SF Horror flick. The one Satoko heard, was the underground citizens theory, I think it was? With the change in the Earth’s crust, an Underground Kingdom and Onigafuchi became connected, and what happen,

……yes yes、the Princess of the Underground Kingdom and a youngster from the village fell in love, and restored the communion of the society, it was an SF Romeo & Juliet.

And then, this new work seems to be the parasite theory that you heard Kei-chan. Yep yep, I would really want her to collect this all in one book sometime, ku ku ku!」

Please do the rest. The more detail I know about the game (relevant or not) the better.

Er, I think LostBlue was just kidding. Why would Shion intercept that phone call? It's possible, though not that likely that Mion and the rest might have moved the body but I was never a fan of the cover up theory. I just don't think the girls would be that dumb not to inform him about the cover up and leave him think he was going mad.

Then you must indeed wonder what Mion and Rena was about to tell Kei in Tatarigoroshi. Seriously, the anime does a very bad job at these things that some scenes are forgettable. Go watch Higurashi once over again after watching the last episode, and jot down notes.

By the way, you do realize by now that the corpse at the beginning of Tatarigoroshi was Rina right? People here and there wouldn't have wasted their time formulating that was Satoshi when all they had to read were the TIPS.

For your amusement, I roughly TL half of Mion's confession to Keiichi. None of this is relevant, but if you guys want to the rest of it, I guess I'll post it later in the week. This is where Mion talks about Takano's past works.

Spoiler:

The day after Keiichi has his phone call with Rena, he decides to confront Mion about it as Keiichi didn’t want to believe that Mion was involved in such a conspiracy.

M: 「……What, …what’s up…?」
K: 「Do you know, ……there are people who are trying to revive the Faith in Oyashiro-sama. 」
M: 「…………huh？ What, Kei-chan? What are we talking about?」

This, of course, is just me prying.
I wanted to see what reaction Mion will have if I came at her directly.

But, Mion really really starred at me blankly.
……When someone hits the nail on the head, most people can’t keep their cool. Most definitely they will show some, even a little, reaction.

Unless Mion is a gifted actor, ……Mion really had no connection with the words, revival of Oyashiro-sama.

……I decided to come clean.

K: 「Mion. Your household, the Sonozaki Family, holds extreme influence over all of Hinamizawa. …………but is there …some type of secret plan to revive the faith of Oyashiro-sama？」

M: 「……Revive？ Why？」

K: 「Yeah, I mean. The current Oyashiro-sama’s Faith is pretty thin, compared to the ancient times, right? Meaning, ……there are orthodox advocates wanting to bring the faith to the level it used to be like long ago like in Onigafuchi with some secret plan or something.」

M: 「Wha？ Wait wait, what’s that. What are we talking about?」
K: 「………So really, you have no idea what I’m talking about…？」

M: 「Of course I don’t. Yea, that’s an interesting story, kinda like those American Best Sellers.」

Mion’s reaction was very natural.
It was impossible that she was pretending to act that she didn’t know when she really knows. ……But, I still continued.

K: 「Well, I mean…… There seems to be people like that in this village. Mion, don’t you know?」

M: 「The Oyashiro-sama Faith, to the level of the Onigafuchi era…？ Is there something good that will come out of that？」
K: 「……Well, ……obviously to the strong fanatical believers, it may have some profound meaning to them……」

M: 「But Kei-chan. No one is going to be happy, going back to the old strict ways. Now in the present, if someone said you can’t leave the village, they won’t be able to make a living, you know.」
K: 「Fo, for example, you know, ……Rika-chan! It seems that Rika-chan been pampered being that she is said to be the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama, right? So probably within followers of senior citizen crowd there might be a fanatical group existing……、」

M: 「By Rika-chan’s followers you mean, like Kimiyoshi-no-Ojichan?

Well, …I certainly believe that they have heavy beliefs but, I don’t think you can call that fanatical.」

K: 「No, but there is! People who plan to once again revive the true Oyashiro-sama Faith!」

M: 「Ah ha ha ha ha!
…Okay okay. We’re going nowhere with this, so let’s say I believe you. And?」
K: 「And, they realized that Oyashiro-sama true identity is an unique local endemic disease in this region, and they are researching to determine the pathogen.」

M: 「Where?

Anyway what’s this endemic disease? What the heck is a pathogen? Stop being so smart.」

I don’t even know what I’m trying to say anymore…

Last night, I was completely inspired by Rena, buying into this crazy story but,……Now that I say it out of my mouth, I begin to understand how inconsistent it is…

M: 「It’s well known。That person, is an occult mania, so she’s always coming up with these tremendous tall tales. Once in a while there will be someone who takes it seriously, and heavily becomes influenced; it’s pretty famous around here.

I also, long ago, heard her stories, and it was quite fun. Ah ha ha.」
K: 「…………Is that, ……for real？」

M: 「Kei-chan, I’m sure you heard of this somewhere, but this village long ago had quite an unique tradition. And those traditions were rather on the grim side, with strict percepts and strict penalties, and harsh customs, become somewhat famous amongst the occult crowd it seems. Miyo-san is just one of those maniacs.」

K: 「Then……、the story about this village being under the control of mysterious parasites are…,」

M: 「Ha？！ Parasiiites？！

…Is that, Miyo-san’s new story？」
K: 「What do you mean by new story?」

M: 「I told you, Miyo-san is an occult mania. She’s been researching into the outrageous legends of Onigafuchi village, and with this and that legends she pulls, she analyze them, and has fun creating these fantasies.

That’s why, she has all these other literally works besides that village mind-controlling parasites theorizing stuff. The one I heard long ago was the UFO theory. This was quite interesting as it was pretty consistent!

In the ancient past, a UFO crash lands in the Onigafuchi Marsh, and from there the aliens that came out started this war with the villagers…and it started something like that, kinda like a B-Class SF Horror flick. The one Satoko heard, was the underground citizens theory, I think it was? With the change in the Earth’s crust, an Underground Kingdom and Onigafuchi became connected, and what happen,

……yes yes、the Princess of the Underground Kingdom and a youngster from the village fell in love, and restored the communion of the society, it was an SF Romeo & Juliet.

And then, this new work seems to be the parasite theory that you heard Kei-chan. Yep yep, I would really want her to collect this all in one book sometime, ku ku ku!」

Yeah, this totally makes sense. Takano seems like she is always having so much fun when she talks about this kind of stuff.

As far as Shion being the one covering for Keiichi in Tatarigoroshi-hen it makes some sense too, since Mion would have probably been busy at the matsuri. Still, why would Shion be at Mion's phone number? And of course, it is not like they can hide the fact that Teppei is at least missing from Satoko. Although I think Satoko goes paranoia-crazy in Tatarigoroshi-hen anyway...

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Originally Posted by lostblue

Apparently, according to Mion, Rena isn't the first of Takano's victims. Takano picks a lucky child every year to tell her stories to Years before, Satoko believed there were mole people running around for a while.

This wouldn't happen to be three years ago, would it?

I have had a strong suspicion since all the way back at episode 13 when Satako pushed K1 off the bridge that that was not the first time she had done something like that.

This episode was just great, IMO. Keiichi remambering what he had done in other arcs was rather surprising, I never tought something like that could happen. And after reading this thread, Tatarigoroshi-hen makes more sense.